Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something. — James Tate Copy Share Image
In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture. — Donovan Copy Share Image
I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too. — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“i deem her insecurities insufferable turn-offs as if the male standard for sexiness is a gospel that demands she stop starving herself… — Britt Greifeld Copy Share Image
“In my mind's eye I can still see the first night flight I made in Argentina. It was pitch-dark. Yet in the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“But this music. This music has limbs that can hold me into morning.” — Aimee Herman Copy Share Image
“Optimism / stung like grit in my swimsuit all the long ride home . . .” — Lesley Wheeler Copy Share Image
The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
